Bug 101811 - confusing list of install boot options
Summary: confusing list of install boot options
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rhl-ig-as-x86
Version: 2.1
Hardware: ia64
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Sandra Moore
QA Contact: Tammy Fox
URL: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/en...
Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-08-07 05:36 UTC by Alex Williamson
Modified: 2014-08-04 22:23 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-08-28 23:31:28 UTC
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Description Alex Williamson 2003-08-07 05:36:19 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030803
Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

Description of problem:
The web page lists the following:

Boot Loader Options

To pass options to the boot loader, enter the following at the EFI Shell prompt:

Shell>elilo linux option

Acceptable options that can be passed to the installation program are as follows:

    *      text � use text mode installation program
    *      lowres � use 640 x 480 resolution
    *      dd � use a driver disk
    *      expert � expert mode
    *      askmethod � select the installation method you would like to use when
booting from the CD

--

  It's confusing that these are all options that get passed to
anaconda and there are no kernel options listed. Customers have
have confused the "text" option to imply a serial console.  Perhaps
some common kernel boot options would be useful here.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read web page
2. Get confused ;^)
3.
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Sandra Moore 2003-08-28 23:31:28 UTC
This has been clarified and will be available in the next release of the
documentation. Thanks for the feedback.


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